{"id":11084,"date":"2020-09-23T08:55:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T05:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=11084"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:15","slug":"a-sailboat-made-partially-from-flip-flops-takes-on-africas-biggest-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/09\/23\/a-sailboat-made-partially-from-flip-flops-takes-on-africas-biggest-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sailboat, Made Partially from Flip-Flops, Takes On Africa\u2019s Biggest Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Early last year a dhow \u2013 a traditional East African sailing vessel \u2013 travelled over 500km south down the coasts of Kenya and Tanzania, calling in at nearly a half-dozen ports along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s a trip made by many boats. However, the Flipflopi was a dhow with a difference. Rather than the traditional wooden construction, the 10-metre, seven-tonne vessel was made entirely from waste plastic collected on Kenya\u2019s beaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The crew of the Flipflopi are partners of the United Nations Environment Programme\u2019s (UNEP)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleanseas.org\/\">Clean Seas campaign<\/a>, which aims to encourage a movement among governments, the private sector and civil society away from single-use plastics and towards a circular supply chain.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A year-and-a-half on from its successful first trip, the Flipflopi is now embarking on another expedition, this time a voyage around Lake Victoria, Africa\u2019s largest lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe rationale behind this is to take the message upstream,\u201d explained Dipesh Pabari, co-founder of the Flipflopi project. He says more than 90 per cent of ocean plastics originate in eight major rivers, including the Nile, part of which begins in Lake Victoria. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/sailboat-made-partially-flip-flops-takes-africas-biggest-lake\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early last year a dhow \u2013 a traditional East African sailing vessel \u2013 travelled over 500km south down the coasts of Kenya and Tanzania, calling in at nearly a half-dozen&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}